Hamburg

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Da ich unlängst in  der Hansestadt Hamburg war und von dieser fasziniert war, möchte ich euch einige

Dinge darüber mitteilen.

Auf der Webseite von NRD habe ich einen interessanten Beitrag zum schrecklichen Brand von 1842 gefunden. Der Hamburger

Kaufmann Theodor Dill hat es mit Freiwilligen geschafft die Börse, die erst kurz vorher fertig geworden war, zu retten.

Hier ist ein Hot Potatoes Quiz zu Hamburg, das ihr online korrigieren könnt http://www.langedi49.ch/HAMBURG2012.htm

Im Weiteren gibt es da die Patriotische Gesellschaft, die das tolerante Denken und das gemeinnützige Handeln fördern will.

Sie  wurde  übrigens 1765 gegründet. Die Werte/Ideen dieser Patriotischen Gesellschaft im 18. Jahrhundert sind

mir unter die Haut gegangen und ich bitte euch den unten eingeblendeten Anschlag  der Gesellschaft zu lesen und ich werde

Vokabelnhilfen auf italiano & English geben.Patriot

Zudem könnt ihr auf folgendem Audio einige Sätze zum Inhalt hören, die jedoch Fehler enthalten. Bitte versucht diese zu finden!

Hört hier:Patriot

http://www.patriotische-gesellschaft.de/start.html?L=1

Das berühmte Lied von Hans Albers “Auf der Reeperbahn um halb eins” möchte ich euch auch nicht vorenthalten. Ich habe dazu auch Übung

gemacht. Verbindet die Sätze auf der linken Seite mit denen auf der rechten. Hans Albers Lyrics

Über das Unglück ein Grieche zu sein/Nikos Dimou

Eigentlich wollte ich an dieser Stelle eine Zusammenfassung zum oben genannten Büchlein veröffentlichen, die sich

auch mit Grammatik beschäftig (Modalverben in Deutsch/English/italiano und Konjunktiv), sowie  Hot Potates Übungen,

die man online korrigieren kann und ein Vokablenspiel.

Da ich in diesen Tagen aber zufällig und mit Schrecken kapiert habe, dass “jemand” Werbung auf

meine Artikel schaltet und mit mir so Geld verdient, während ich die ganze Arbeit gratis mache,

habe ich entschieden diese Beiträge auf meiner

WEBSEITE http://www.langedi49.ch/langedi49/Blog_Books_Bucher/Entries/2012/5/10_Uber_das_Unglück_ein_Grieche_zu_sein.html

veröffentlichen.

I had in mind to publish a summary concerning the book by Nicos Dimou and relative material here but, as I have recently been

taken aback as I realized that “somebody” publishes commercials on my articles and earns so money, while I work for

free, I’ve decided to publish the summary, working sheets  about grammar (modal verbs ecc.) or Hot Potatoes exercies

and a vocabulary quiz on my website:

www.langedi49.ch/langedi49/Blog_Books_Bucher/Entries/2012/5/10_Uber_das_Unglück_ein_Grieche_zu_sein.html

Ho avuto in mente di pubblicare un riassunto con fogli di lavoro, vocabolario ecc. in merito al presente libro su questo mio blog.

Visto però che ho, con grande sorpresa, constatato che “qualcuno” aggiunge pubblicità ai miei articoli ho deciso di pubblicare

tutto il materiale che ho preparato sul mio sito:

http://www.langedi49.ch/langedi49/Blog_Books_Bucher/Entries/2012/5/10_Uber_das_Unglück_ein_Grieche_zu_sein.html

Ich empfehle euch natürlich  herzllich das Buch zu lesen. I recomment you, of course, with all my heart, to read the booklet.

Vi consiglio naturalmente di cuore

di leggere questo libro.

A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN OBJECTS

I would like to recommend you the fascinating series by BBC about the 100 objects contributed by the British Museum, London and which

narrates the history of the world. Open the website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/#/contributor/137/

and now use the scroll bar on the right hand side to choose a date/period you want to know more about. Pictures of objects appear and

you should choose one of them for more detailed information to appear. On the left hand side you can see another filter window.

I, for example, wanted to know more about “THE ADMONITIONS SCROLL”, one of the most important paintings in the world which

embraces three different art forms, painting, poetry and calligraphy. It’s in fact known as the admonitions by the instructress to the

courtladies. It’s an ancient guide of maners and above all of morals. I recommend you heartily to download the listening comprehension.

Here is the link with the detailed information.admonition The poem was originally written approximately 290 AD to reprimand the

empress Jia.

After having read the transcript or listened to the audio you can play the following game I’ve developed.

On the left hand side of the cards you have the first part of the sentences and on the right hand

side there is the second part. Try to match the sentences!BRITISHMUSEUM

I also add a vocabulary list  in English/German/Italian which should help you to understand the transcript of “THE ADMONITIONS SCROLL”Historyofvocabulary

Augusto Gansser/berühmter Schweizer Geologe

Da dieser unglaubliche Mann am 9. Januar 2012 in Massagno, Tessin verstorben ist,  möchte ich euch hier das folgende,

http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=4aabf41a-b317-4296-acc1-fded32ea3dce

im Jahr 2008 gemachte Video empfehlen, das uns einen Einblick in sein Leben gibt, obwohl Herr Gansser Dialekt spricht.

Wer hat schon von diesem interessanten Mann gehört?

Auch für Deutschlerner in der Schweiz ist es ja interessant den Unterschied zwischen Hochdeutsch und Schweizerdeutsch zu

hören.

Wortschatzhilfe /Vocabulary: Italienisch/Italian +Englisch/ English siehe unten/see below

THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES

Edmund de Waal about The Hare with amber eyes, posted with vodpod

Edmund de Waal is the writer of the fascinating book „THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES“

in which tries not only to explain of how the netsukes (very small objects made by Japanese craftsmen) came into the Ephrussi family

but he also writes about the identity of his family, about loss or about  survival of stories.

This is the link to a Hot Potatoes drag & drop exercise which you can correct online.http://www.langedi49.ch/EPHRUSSI.htm

In this video he starts speaking about the netsukes and their story. The object he is holding in his hand is quite heavy, made of ivory,

it’s a well fed or fat hare with self-satisfied amber eyes. It’s from the 1^9th century Japan or Kyoto. This little carving used to be hanging

from a belt.

The writer thinks of going back to when he was 17 years old and when he was being apprenticed as a potter and to the first time he

went off to Japan, to pottery villages and  finally turning up at his great uncle Iggie’s, an elderly Jewish gentleman in Tokyo. There

were books everywhere and there was also a vitrine which lit up and which was full up of  264 ridiculous little netsukes. In the

course of many years Iggie tells Edmund the story  of these tiny things and how they brought him to Tokyo. By the years Edmund

gets more and more involved with Japan.

Weissrussland/Belarus/Witebsk

Im Stadtpark Mark Chagall mit Geige

Meine Kollegin, die in Minsk an der Belorussischen Staatlichen Universität, der ältesten Universität von Weißrussland, Deutsch

unterrichtet, hat mir angeboten, Arbeiten ihrer Studenten zu deren Land bei mir auf dem Blog zu veröffentlichen. Ich fand diese

Idee ganz toll und denke, dass wir so einige Neuigkeiten erfahren können.

(Bei dass Sätzen muss man das Verb an den Schluss des Satzes setzen. Als Letztes das Modalverb. Nelle subordinate con dass i

verbi in ultimo.

In subordinates with dass you have to put the verbs at the end.)

Zuerst noch kurz zur Universität:

Sie wurde 1921 gegründet und es gibt 17 Fakultäten.Das Studium an der Universität dauert fünf Jahre lang. Zweimal im Jahr,

im Januar und im Juni, legen die Studenten die Prüfungen und Zwischenprüfungen in verschiedenen Studienfächern ab. An der

Uni studieren auch die jungen Leute aus den GUS-Ländern, China, Turkmenistan usw. Die Studenten werden an der Fakultät

für internationale Beziehungen ausgebildet, sie studieren Fremdsprachen. Am Ende des Studiums werden sie Dolmetscher/

Übersetzer mit 2 Fremdsprachen: Englisch

(die 1. Sprache lernen sie in der Schule und dann weiter an der Uni) und Deutsch  (die 2. Sprache lernen sie an der Uni  nur

während 2,5 Jahre.)

Hier ist nun die erste Arbeit von Olja Lapschina, der ich hier herzlich danke.

Ich habe hier unten einige grammatikalische Erklärungen auf Italienisch und Englisch beigefügt,

sowie des Wortschatzes. Orange ist immer Engslisch und violett

Italienisch.

 

Witebsk: die geliebte Heimatstadt (L’amata città natale /home town)

Es gibt immer einen Ort im Leben jedes Menschen, der besonders beliebt ist. Wenn man dort wohnt, und besonders wenn man dann entfernt davon ist, hat man das besondere

Gefühl zum Ort.

Man erinnert sich an hervorragende Momente, die man  im Ort erlebt hat und diese Erinnerungen bleiben in dem Menschen für immer.

(Hier haben wir zwei Relativsätze. Der bezieht sich den vorausgehenden Ort und die auf Momente. Qui abbiamo due frasi

relative. In italiano si userebbe che che siriferisce a luogo/Orte Momente/momenti. Here above we’ve got two relative sentences.

In English we could say that/which – for objects-and refer to places and moments.

EGYPT/ÄGYPTEN/TUTANKHAMUN

DEUTSCH: SIEHE UNTEN

Artikel mit Wortschatzerklärung  auf Englisch und Italienisch und Grammatik/Passiv/Nebensätze: Ab A2-B1

First of all, let’s hope that we can soon return to this fascinating country! Speriamo tanto di poter presto ritornare in questo paese affascinate! Hoffen wir, dass wir bald in dieses faszinierende Land zurückkehren können!

All around the world many people are worried about the situation in Egypt and very sorry also for the pillages that have lately occurred  at the Egyptian Museum of Antiquity in Cairo.

That museum can be compared with the Louvre in Paris and it contains many very important pieces of ancient Egyptian history.

It houses, for example, the world’s largest collection of  Pharaohnic antiquities and the many treasures of the Pharaoh TUTANKHAMUN of the 18^th dynasty. The current museum is

in Tahrir Square where many actual protests are taking place.

It was Howard Carter an English  archeologist who is known as the primary discoverer of  Tutankhamun’s tomb on 4 November 1922. Carter’s water carrier seems to have found

the steps leading to the tomb. It was by far the best preserved and most intact pharaohnic tomb ever found in the Valley of the Kings.

When Carter  and his companions arrived they made a „tiny breach in the top left hand corner“ of the door and by means of

a candle they could see that the gold and ebony treasures were still in order. Inside the tomb there was a large collection of artefacts, which should accompany the pharaoh to the

hereafter. There were weapons, ivory, alabaster and gold bracelets, necklaces or other decorative jewellery. They found the famous chest with the green gem in form of a scarab

and with the eye of Horus in the middle and above all the  famous GOLD MASK in the burial chamber. In that room there were murals all over. Carter had never seen anything

so magificent like that.

When Tutankhamun came to power he married his half sister and they had two daughter, both stillborn. During his reign he lifted the ban of Amun (God) and traditional privileges

were restored and the capital was brought back to Thebes.

Scientists still do not agree on Tutankhamun’s reason of death. Did he die at the age  of nineteen because he was suffering from malaria or maybe  because there used to be incest

or was he poisoned? However, the latest scans show that he had many broken bones  and that one leg got infected. Scientists suppose that he may have fallen from his wagon due to a fight.

Click on this link and you can, for example

-read the article

-and then listen to it and at the same time do a drag and drop exercise TUTANKHAMUN

I would like to end this comment in English with a little bit of grammar:

This is a link to the New York Times about Ëgypt:http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/egypt/index.html

Arbeitsblatt/worksheet

SOME SENTENCES TO THE PASSIVE

Passive present	Passive perfect	Passive simple past	Passive future
The Tutankhhamun tomb is found by Howard Carter.	The Tutankhamun tomb has been found by Howard Carter.	The Tutankhamun tomb was found by Howard Carter in 1922.	The Tutankhamun treasures will maybe be destroyed.

 

SOME SENTENCES TO THE CONDITIONAL

FACT	HIGH PROBABILITYpresent tense	LOWER PROBABILITYpresent tense	CONDITIONAL IN THE PAST
If  the Golden Maskis in the museum, they steal it.	If the Golden Mask is in the museum, they will steal it.	If the Golden Mask was in the museum, they would steal it.	If the Golden Mask had been in the museum, they would have stolen it.

Ich  habe auch gelesen, dass die Ägypterinnen durch diese Revolution eine neue Position in der Gesellschaft erreicht haben. Und DW hat einen Artikel für Deutschlerner, mit Wort-

schatzerklärugen veröffentlicht, der die Probleme der Unternehmen thematisiert, die in autoritären Ländern tätig sind.http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14833134,00.html

Diesen Artikel über Ägyptens jüngste Geschichte , den ich auf Andy Neusteins (http://www.toronto.diplo.de/contentblob/2073266/Daten/268478/download_deutsch_blog.pdf ) gelesen habe, lege ich euch sehr ans Herz:http://www.tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=3858

KAIRO

Die ganze Welt schaut in dieser Zeit nach Ägypten und auf die umliegenden Länder und wir sind besorgt, weil der ägyptische Präsident Mubarak nicht zurücktreten will.

Leider ist ja auch das Ägyptische Museum mit den äusserst wertvollen Tutanchamun Schätzen geplündert worden. Dieses Museum beherbert die wichtigste Antiksammlung

der Welt. Es kann an Wichtigkeit mit dem Louvre verglichen werden. Ich habe gelesen, dass die eigenen Angestellten des Museums diese Plünderung verursacht haben.

Es sollen auch 2 Mumien zerstört,  sowie Vitrinen  mit wervollem Schmuck eingeschlagen worden sein. Das Ägyptische Museum ist im Stadtzentrum am Tahir-Platz und wird nun vermehrt von der Arme beschützt.Die ganzen Schätze sind auch nicht versichert!

Worksheet/Arbeitsblatt:Arbeitsblatt/workshheet

Nach dass und weil kommen die Verben an den Schluss des Satzes.

Hier eine  graphische Erklärung zum Passiv:

nach Ägypten schauen	to look towards Egypt	guardare verso Egitto
zurücktreten	to abdict	dimettersi
wertvoll	precious	prezioso/i
plündern	to pillage	saccheggiare
beherbergen	to house	ospitare
die Antiksammlung	collection of antiquities	collezione di antichitä
die Angestellten	the employees	gli impiegati
zerstören	to destroy	distruggere
beschützen	to protect	proteggere
der Schatz	treasure	il tesoro

Kunstdenkmäler/Sights/monumenti

Deses Jahr möchte ich euch einige wichtige Kunstdenkmäler aus verschiedenen Ländern mittels meiner Fotos, Beschreibungen , Fragen oder Quiz, sei es auf Deutsch wie auf Englisch

vorstellen. Es soll sozusagen eine interdisiplinäre Arbeit werden, die ich mit der Zeit auch erweitern will, sofern ich Zeit finde und jemand interessiert ist. In der Klasse könnten

die Lernenden darüber sprechen, warum sie lieber an den einen Ort, anstatt an einen anderen gehen würden. Versucht auch selbst mehr herauszufinden über die verschiedenen

Kunstedenkmäler. Am Ende dieses Artikels gibt es ein kleines QUIZ auf Deutsch zu den verschiedenen Sehenswürdigkeiten.

Quest’anno vorrei presentarvi alcuni monumenti culturali  importani che ho visto in diversi paesi, tramite foto, testi, domande o anche quiz. Vorrei farvi fare un piccolo lavoro

interdisciplinare sia in tedesco che inglese. Spero di potervi motivare di andare a visitare qualcuno o qualche paese straniero . Col tempo vorrei ampliare il lavoro in questo senso, se trovo il tempo.(Traducete dall’italiano in tedesco oppure in inglese.) Si potrebbe anche discutere sul perché piuttosto vedere un luogo invece di un altro. Cercate anche voi stessi di trovare ulteriori inform-

mazioni in merito ai monumenti indicati.

This year I would like to present you some important cultural monuments which I’ve seen in the hope to motivate you, too to go and visit them. I’m going to show you pictures, texts

with some questions and also a quiz and it’s intended to be an interdisciplinary work in German, English and Italian. I would like to slowly  add some more articles in this sense, if I find the

time and if you should be interested in this. In class students could also discuss why they would rather visit one place instead of another. Try to find more information on the monumnets

shown here.

You can do a drag & drop exeercise if you click on this link monuments trying to match the pictures with the sentences on the right.

Unjumble the words in bold letters.

The Alhambra is located on a strategic point, with a view over the whole city of Granada/Andalucia and the a) wodaem (la Vega), and this fact leads to believe that other buildings were already

on that side before the Moslems arrived. I have, however, to say that this castle with its great gardens and fountains or its b) strapmar belong to the most beautiful cultural sights

I’ve ever seen. I would like to mention „Il Patio de los leones“ The first historical documents c)nwonk about the Alhambra date from the 9th century.

It was only after the fall of Cordoba, in 1236, that the centre of Moorish power was transferred to d) adanarG – bringing a massive influx of nobles, architects and money which led to the construction of a fabulous new castle on the hill across the river valley. It seems that the e) dirsaN Dynasty founded this castle in order to avoid persecution by Ferdinando III of Castile and

his Reconquista.

Yusuf I (1333-1353) and Mohammed V (1353-1391) are responsible for most of the constructions we can still admire today.

In 1492 Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinando of Aragon concluded the  Catholic Reconquista in the victory over the battle of Granada. Does this date remind you of another very important event? I would like to get a comment on this!!

We know that the Catholic Monarch  http://www.andalucia.com/cities/granada/alhamhistory.htm f) selrahC V ordered the demolition of a part of the

complex in order to build his palace which is nearby and which looks horrible and bulky in comparison, at least, according to me.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

Summary of the story/questions/audio

This photo is not from the Szechuan  but from the Huang Shan Mountains in the Anhui region, which is  still in China!

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie. (Book and film)

Ich hoffe, dass sich auch Englischlernende deutscher oder italienischer Muttersprache mit China beschäftigen möchten!

During this summer I’ve read the above mentioned book which I’ve very much enjoyed.

The story is about  two teenage boys ( Ma and Luo)who are sent to a political re-education camp in 1971 at the remote Mountain of the Phoenix of the Sky in Sechuan, because, in those dark days of China’s Cultural Revolution, their parents have been doctors and therefore considered enemies of the people. Despite the fact that it is about a really dark period in China’s history its quirky humour has also made me smile, especially when Luo explains the people in that remote village that Ma’s piece of music he used to play is called „Mozart is Thinking of Chairman Mao“, or when the same people are fascinated by Luo’s clock.

During their stay up there, the boys make friendship with Four-Eyes , who secretly possesses an illicit catch of European classic novels, including Balzac and Flaubert.  Through these books , which they steal, they are able to enter  the world of sensuality and sensitivity far removed from Mao’s China.

The Little Seamstress, whom the boys at first consider uncultivated.is the most delightful character of the story. She is the daughter of a very appreciated and famous local tailor. They boys read these books to this beautiful and shy girl and through them  she  learns about the outside world and finally leaves the mountain and everything she knew in order to start a new life, despite the fact that she has fallen in love with both the boys.

The book has an enormous emotional power, when the writer describes the resilience of the human spirit in face of tyranny. Ma and Luo are capable of fooling around , cheating the authorities or pursuing friendships and love.

Click on the link and you can listen to some questions about the book or the summary here above:Balzac and the little Chinese

If you click on this link you can read some yes/no questions about the book and see the correct the answers onlineBalzac

Whereas on the following link you can read the summary and then do a multiple choice exercise: SEAMSTRESS

Revision powerpoint about this story, the writer and the period in which the story is set.

Besides, there are two  other absolutely touching and highly interesting books concerning China:

A Thousand Years of Good Prayers  (shortstories) and The Vagrants by Yiyun Li

I hope you will partecipate in the following poll.

H.C.ANDERSEN/Denmark

Deutsch siehe unten

Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense in 1805. By the way, Christian  and Hans are traditional Danish names. Most of us know him probably for his  fairy tales and his real life also had some aspects of such children’s stories. He was born as the son of a poor cobbler and he died as a rich and famous man, celebrated around the world, the intimate of kings and queens. His books have been translated into 15o languages! In the period when he was born only 60% of Europeans children survived and most of them grew up illiterate.

Sometimes, because he was  tall, ugly with a big nose and big feet, he was portrayed as a simple, innocent, child-like spinner of tales, a character from his own stories, but letters and diaries by Andersen’s contemporaries, however, draw the picture of a very different man: a sharply intelligent, ambitious writer with a hardscrabble past and tortured soul. The message of his stories has

various layers and is in my opinion, also for adults interesting.

Like The Ugly Duckling,one of his very famous books,  born in a humble duck-yard yet destined to become a swan seems to be authobiographical.

Speculation suggest that Andersen was the illegitimate son of Christian Frederik, the Crown Prince of Denmark and later King Christian VIII of Denmark.

Here a summary of the plot.

At the beginning of the tale a duck mother hatches her eggs and one of her little hatched out birds is perceived by the other ducks as a different and homely little creature and suffers very much because it is verbally abused by the neighbours and ostrasized by them. It sadly decides to leave the farm and lives with wild ducks and geese until hunters slaughter the flocks. It then finds home with an old lady but her cat and hen tease it mercilessly and again it sets off on its own. It sees a flock of migrating wild swans and is delighted and excited but can not join them. Winter arrives. A farmer finds and carries the freezing little bird home, but the foundling is frightened by the farmer’s noisy children and flees the house. It spends a miserable winter alone in the outdoors but, when spring arrives, it is welcomed into a flock of beautiful swans for it has matured into one of them. It turned out that one of the swans eggs had rolled into the ducks nest and therefore produced all this confusion.

If you click on the following link you can listen to the summary:The Ugly Duckling

Vocubalary list to „The Ugly Duckling“

English/itliano/Deutsch

to hatch the eggs	covare le uova/brüten
duck/pl. ducks	anatra/e- die Ente/n
goose/pl. geese	oca/oche- die Gans/Gänse
to perceive	percepire- wahrnehmen
to ostrasize	emarginare- ausschliessen
neighbours	vicini di casa- die Nachbarn
to slaughter	macellare- schlachten
flock	lo stormo- die Schwarm
swan/s	cigno/i- der Schwan/¨ne
to set off on ist own	partire da solo- alleine fortgehen
to flee	fuggire- flüchten
it turned out that	si è verificato/è successo che- es hat sich herausgestellt

By the way, Odense’s old town enchanted me completely and in one of the yellow houses H.C. Andersen grew up. The town is on the island Fyn and can easily be reach in one day by train from Copenhagen.The museum dedicatd to H.C. Andersen  fits perfectly well into the surrounding.The writer left his hometown at the age of 14, after having worked for some days in a factory. He travelled all alone to Copenhagen to become famous and rich. He was determined to join the Royel theatre

but the director blunty sent the scruffy urchin away. He was desperate because nobody wanted to help him and he run out of money. Eventually it was Mr Weyse, an accomplished composer who took pitty of the boy and promptly raised a sum of money on the boy so that he could study and rent a room.

Some taletitles:

- The Princess Test

- The Tinder-Box

- The Princess and the Pea

- The Little Mermaid

- The Butterfly

- The Emperor’s New Clothes

To our trip in Denmark I made the following video.

Copenhagen and surrounding, posted with vodpod

Vielleicht hat jemand Lust sich dieses Video von der Geschicht “Das hässliche Entlein auf Deutsch” anzusehen.

Hier eine kleine Wortschatzhilfe

1.Der Bauernhof/ la fottoria 2.ausschlüpfen/ sgusciare, 3.der Tollpatsch / il scemo, 4. verspotten/deridere, 5. davonlaufen/scappare, 6. einsperren/chiudere dentro, 7. der Käfig/la gabbia

8. der Schilf/la canna, 9. stolz sein/ essere orgoglio, 10. füttern/dare da mangiare.